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Carrboro teen in jail after shooting

By TED STRONG | February 26

A Carrboro teen is facing a charge of attempted first-degree murder after the shooting of a 16-year-old boy Monday evening on Johnson Street, said Chapel Hill police Capt. Chris Blue. David Earl Ellis Jr., 17, was taken to Orange County Jail in lieu of $200,000 bail pending an appearance in court today in Hillsborough. The victim, shot in the abdomen, was taken to N.C. Memorial Hospital, and his condition was not released Monday night.

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Sapikowski gives final guilty plea

By TED STRONG | February 11

Adam Sapikowski's head bowed closer and closer to the table Friday as family spoke about how much they missed the parents he killed. "I'm not looking forward to my own graduation because I know when I get my diploma and I look out there, my mom won't be cheering, and my dad won't be doing his silly celebration dance," said Lauren Sapikowski, the defendant's older sister. His aunt and half-brother also read statements about how the loss affected them.

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UNC worker gets murder charge

By TED STRONG | January 30

James Kenneth Imonti was shot and killed Monday night in front of a Food Lion in Carrboro. The man arrested in the murder was a UNC employee, according to a statement from the Carrboro Police Department. The police have arrested Garland McRay King Jr., 65, of 900 Sesame Road, and charged him with first degree murder, according to Carrboro police reports. Imonti, 59, was reportedly King's son-in-law, according to the statement.

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Man dies in Food Lion shooting; Shooter identified as UNC employee

By TED STRONG | January 29

James Kenneth Imonti was shot and killed Monday night in front of a Food Lion. The man arrested in the murder was a UNC employee, according to a statement from the Carrboro Police Department. The police have arrested Garland McRay King Jr., 65, of 900 Sesame Rd., and charged him with first degree murder, according to Carrboro police reports. Imonti, 59, was reportedly King's son-in-law, according to the statement.

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Man shot in Food Lion lot

By TED STRONG | January 29

UPDATE: James Kenneth Imonti was shot and killed in front of a Food Lion on Monday night. The man arrested in the murder was a UNC employee, according to a statement from the Carrboro Police Department. Read more One man shot another in the parking lot of a Carrboro Food Lion at about 6 p.m. Monday, according to police.

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Complaint targets taco trucks

By TED STRONG | January 28

Members of the Carrboro Board of Aldermen are on board to return tasty Mexican snack food trucks to the town in the latest chapter of the zoning spat some town officials have dubbed "Tacogate." "Where am I going to get cow tongue tacos at 11 o'clock on a Thursday night if we don't have taco trucks?" Mayor Mark Chilton asked.

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Man shot at Food Lion

By TED STRONG | January 28

One man shot another in the parking lot of a Carrboro Food Lion at about 6 p.m. Monday, according to police. The man police arrested was kicking a man, who had been shot and was on the ground, when graduate student Jihan Ali walked out of the grocery store near the intersection of West Main Street and N.C. 54. "I saw a big African-American guy yelling at something that was on the ground, and when I walked by there was a guy lying on the ground," she said.

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A post office rally for rights

By TED STRONG | January 28

About 45 people gathered in front of the Franklin Street post office Saturday to protest America's policy on Israel and the Palestinian question. They were out in reaction to the deterioration of the situation in the Gaza strip, though they cared about Palestinian issues in general. The protesters believe American support for the Israeli government is wrong because it violates Palestinian human rights, they said. "It's kind of disgusting that we're . supporting a government that is allowing that to happen," said Sarah Grossblatt, a senior international studies major at UNC.

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Moratorium expires Jan. 31

By TED STRONG | January 15

The development moratorium in northwest Chapel Hill will expire Jan. 31. The Chapel Hill Town Council voted Monday night not to fight the expiration and to put in place new plans to permanently shape development in the area. All new development applications in an area between Homestead Road and Interstate 40 along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard have been temporarily halted since last May. No one at the meeting spoke in favor of extending the moratorium, a move town staff wrote might not be legally supportable in the first place.

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Town gets new money man

By TED STRONG | January 10

Chapel Hill is revamping its finance department and integrating information technology under a new business management director. "I took the opportunity to kind of rethink our organization," Town Manager Roger Stancil said. Stancil said he hopes the change will allow for more integrated and strategic planning and budgeting. The town's information technology director, Bob Avery, will work for the new director, Ken Pennoyer, but there will be no new finance director.